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Show Profits & Fighting Disease Paul De Kruif, well known author auth-or and scientist, wants to wipe out disease as a self-liquidating project, proj-ect, but observes that the relief of euflering and the prevention of dying dy-ing cannot be served for the entire population "so lor.g as there remains any money consideration between the people and the fighters for i their lives." The author believes that "three-fourths "three-fourths of the incapacitating illnesses ill-nesses cf persons of working years could be got rid of in a generation if we were given adequate mobilization mobiliz-ation of all the available weapons." He says, "All consideration of private priv-ate profits are not only wasteful but infamous if they frustrate the fight fcr life, if they deny the right cf one burman being to live." This distinguished writer is voicing voic-ing the thoughts of .millions of people in the United States today. Tne members of the medical profession, pro-fession, itself are anxiously seeking a solution cf the difficulties that Oiten p event suffering peoples from receiving the full fruits of scientific treatment. Even the American Medical Association, conservative con-servative defender of the status quo, is being shaken to its foundation by the debate over social medicine. That the men of medicine are grappling with econmic and social problems, connected with the treatment treat-ment of disease, is an encouraging sign to those people who look forward for-ward to the day when all people in this country, .whether rich or poor, will be assured adequate care and scientific treatment of disease. dis-ease. Whether justly formed or net, there is a widespread sentiment senti-ment amieng the people generally that some new approach is necessary neces-sary if disease is to be conquered |